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pedology

study of soils in their natural environment
Class type of: soil science Q215501

Facts

8 properties
Instance of
academic discipline
Subclass of
soil science[2]
Part of
geography, soil science, pedology and pedometrics[3][4][5]
Described by source
Otto's encyclopedia[7]
Is the study of
soil[9]
Practiced by
pedologue[10]
Said to be the same as
grunt science[6]
Topic has template
Šablona:Pedologie[8]
🏷️ Also known as
en pedology ar علم أحوال التربة ar علم التربة ar علوم التربة ar بيدولوجيا cs pedologie da jordbundslære da Pedologi de Bodenwissenschaft de Edaphologie de Pedologe el Παιδιολογία es pedologia es pedología fa خاک‌شناسی fa خاک شناسی fa خاکشناسی fa علوم خاک fi Maaperätiede fr pédologie
🔖 Identifiers · 21
OpenAlex ID
C70160891
BNCF Thesaurus ID
23581
Dewey Decimal Classification
631.4
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
science/pedology
Encyclopædia Universalis ID
pedologie
Freebase ID
/m/0g5sr
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
pedologia
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0236500
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
jordbunnslære
Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID
genezis-pochv-8562bd
KBpedia ID
Pedology
Lex ID
pedologi
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Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
70160891
NL CR AUT ID
ph115706
National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID (BNE v1.0)
XX524730
PACTOLS thesaurus ID
pcrts8Sij9iWxU
PSH ID
13294
SVKKL authority ID
h0003664-pedologie
Topic's main category
Category:Pedology
UNSPSC code
70131708
Zhihu topic ID
19654279

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🔗 Connections
← Field of work 14
Vasili Dokuchayev, Paweł Strzelecki, Feodor Levinson-Lessing, Nikolai Cholodny, Konstantin Glinka, Maria Glazovskaya, Jānis Peive, Dan H. Yaalon +6 more
Part of 2
geography, soil science
Subtypes 2
soil morphology, paleopedology
← Facet of 2
geophysical survey, Catena
← Studied by 2
soil, pedosphere
Belongs to 1
soil science
Has these parts 1
oedometer test
Instance of 1
academic discipline
Is the study of 1
soil
Said to be the same as 1
grunt science
Subclass of 1
soil science
Topic's main category 1
Category:Pedology
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Pedology
← FactGrid item ID 1
Tremar Coombe
← Said to be the same as 1
grunt science
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Summary

pedology is an academic discipline[1].

Related Entities

geography soil science Vasili Dokuchayev

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 20w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Subclass of → soil science
    Topic has template → Šablona:Pedologie
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    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ SVKKL authority ID: h0003664-pedologie, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
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